it's a popular stop on japan's tourist trail. coming up in sport asia's biggest international football tournament gets underway in the united arab emirates sana has at keeping her. six. year old son who. think the problem. is the name on the. regular music is really going to trip. him very young. but i feel that. this. is a customer. that's deeply relevant. especially for. all the right wing assault on our freedom to last questions and freedom of expression and

people you know all being students teachers activists there goes right to me so that it's going to do this on the. blog on the streets the protest has reached our doorstep in which. attempts to. it's. start chipping crane has officially split from its religious leadership and russia ecumenical patriarch and who is the worldwide head of the church has signed a document granting independence russian church is said to have broken all links with the ukrainian parishes matheson reports. with

a simple. upin ukraine's author talks churches gain their independence or autocephaly a move likely to infuriate russian religious leaders and deepening feeds of a global split in the church days before the ceremony in istanbul the leader of the author dogs church worldwide denied he'd been given bribes to authorize the separation however he admitted to a group of children he had been given chocolates by ukrainian president petro poroshenko. president poroshenko also has a chocolate factory even if the russian church is accusing me of being bribed with money to do this autocephaly in reality i didn't receive money because i got a lot of the sweets and chocolate from the factory apportioning go. according to an agreement made a centuries ago ukraine's orthodox churches have been under the jurisdiction of the churches of russia. but pressure has been growing for ukraine's churches to sever

ties since the country became independent from russia in one thousand nine hundred one. and that pressure has been getting stronger since russia annexed crimea in twenty fourteen when large parts of eastern ukraine were taken over by russian backed forces and for fighting continues. crean's leadership headed by president petro poroshenko who's been attending saturday's ceremony accuses the russian controlled side of the church of spreading pro moscow propaganda a charge russia denies if you can see. the you dear ukrainians this is a historic event this is a great day i'm sure that it will go down in history for river. the document authorizing this operation known as the thomas will be taken back to crane on sunday the author docks christmassy a celebration is to be held in kiev the following day a celebration the church as leaders in russia may not share love matheson argues in

. thank you very much joe legal in a sole share has made it five wins out of five as manchester united manager in night his latest victory saw them progress into grant full of the english f.a. cup salcha has the job on a caretaker basis after replacing shows a marine new one much to open the scoring from the penalty spot against the second tier team. was back in the starting line up and he set up a meeting in the cuckoo for united second finish to nil to united. cup holders chelsea were taking on nottingham forest says fabregas missed the chance to mark his final appearance for the club with a go to spanish woke up when a is on his way to a french club monaco but two second half goals from alvar marotta gave telsey it to know when and a place in round four. or thirty in time

a winner's arsenal were easy winners against blackpool teenagers joe woke up scored twice in the first half and just before full time alex wrapped up a three nil when. there's been more controversy at the asian cup which has just started in the united arab emirates qatar has accused the host nation's security services of denying accredited journalists from qatar and three into the country all tournaments organizers say they did offer the return of the group to the u.a.e. but that proposal was declined this week cutter's a.f.c. vice presidents hannity had his arrival into the emirates delayed by twenty four hours cut a still under blockade imposed by the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt. the event itself has now kicked off and i would be the host that played bahrain in the opening game behind to the lead through mohamed me the. rather a late equaliser after

a controversial penalty aboard the referee deciding that mohammad omar horne had handled the ball. and stepped up to score the spot kick as the game finished one of . the pending champions australia take on dalton and their opening game on sunday both teams are favored to progress from this group which also includes syria and palestine but earlier we spoke to asian football writer martin lo about which teams are likely to talent for the trophy. it's certainly going to be one of the big four it expects the teams that usually gets the woke up so you go kind of iran and south korea japan australia the last four years iran it's been very dominant and the very last ones competitively and ups to spain at the world cup so you can see what kind of pedigree they bring to that storm and the question mark is surround in the

style of play and they very much play on the docks and how to counter teams rather than dictating play which that the talent for is not regarded to say that south korea go into this tournament as edging it with iran and they're in talk or i have got this player in asia at the moment and son home and who's done pretty for the moment and also guts and a new manager who seems to fit the style of play and i think they look stronger to contest later on the other two that we usually consider japan and australia a bit in transition at the moment they've got new coaches and they've left outs a couple of players and also faces quite a few injuries so they expect maybe iran south korea its kind of big test in final . well for the first. place wisconsin and said to south america the race is to be held in just one country government has invested millions of dollars in the

event is now hoping to witness a financial as well us or thing payback lana sanchez reports from lima. furrowing mountains riding along beaches or through the moving dunes of the decker launches a new addition in just this latin american nation challenging competition in one of the world's roughest to rains that dakar officials say will bring great benefits to the country a place been if it has been the media impact of the great one thousand two hundred hours of international media promotion and one hundred ninety countries and over seventy t.v. channels it's huge and it gives a lot of opportunity to promote tourism in the country between vested nearly six million dollars to hold the competition here but the government says the images of seen around the world is equivalent to nearly two hundred million dollars in advertising. on one hand is the economic impact generated by the event itself the

rallies development leaves us sixty million dollars in consumption of goods and services and there's a lot of spending from people along the road nearly five hundred drivers and riders will meet every five thousand kilometer mainly on the father region of the country but one of the challenges to preserve. sites. civilizations thousands of years old lived and disappeared there many critics say the competition could in danger priceless heritage the government says it's mapped out forty four archaeological sites and eco systems to protect our park rangers and our killer just will guard these areas. even though you try to keep far away from evidently cultural areas you can't know what might be under the ground and unexpectedly find traces of ruins. that's a risk but the real impact on the route of the people who don't respect the imposed limits thousands of peruvians are expected to follow the drivers along the way the

experts say the spectators could become the main threat to the ancient sites during a much loved and much criticised competition but unison just one just. fine australia open champion roger federer is looking good ahead of the defense of his title thirty seven year old east pass one of his main rivals. in perth on them before alexander's there says he hopes to win his first grand slam this year federer be the twenty one year old german in straight sets. and day after knocking out world number one all about the joke of it seven see that roberto. has won the qatar open spaniard beat thomas critique in the final. us open champion was knocked out in the semifinals at the brisbane international. last in straight sets to crane's yeah it was a wrinkle and off to the mat decided to pull out of next week's sydney

international. and feel like i didn't really know how to cope with not playing well so. i don't know like i was. soaking aloof and like there are moments that i try not to do but then the ball winning go in and then i would go back to being like childish and also swell from we'll have more later on. turkey's introduced a sharjah on single use plastic bags an attempt to clean out the mediterranean sea its waters are polluted with thousands of tonnes of plastic every year at the country's efforts to get people to cut down are you surprised they come at a high price and are factors or that tens of thousands of jobs are now at risk because your last more from istanbul. like many come true is worldwide turkey has a major problem with plastic waste turkey is your second largest plastics producer and six in the world. millions of tonnes are thrown away every year.

often ending up in the mediterranean sea and littering turkey's coastline it is a system aged one hundred forty four tons of plastics from turkey alone and up in the sea every day one are of it refined fish has my full plastic in its digestive system and one million. birds are suffocating in plastic bags every year. the turkish government is implementing what is called a zero waste policy turkish m.p.'s passed a law aimed at cutting the cost stemming from pollution in the long run single use plastic facts are the first target. from now on shoppers will have to buy plastic bags shops called given the way face a fine farmer's market traders around sure have the new low will work it would cost

too much for a customer how would we charge them if they'd be foul keep the bags and use them again the turkish government estimates every turk uses four hundred forty plastic bags every year with the new plastic bag tax that total is expected to fall to forty a year by two thousand and twenty five many people here are hopeful the new government's measures to reduce plastic consumption will be just as successful as the ban on smoking in public places a decade. environmentalists say the sucks us off the new regulations depends on troops being responsible citizens they need to be encouraged to avoid single use plastic packing and to help save the world from the dangers of pollution. plastic bag makers say the law could make tens of thousands of factory workers redundant. bags can be recycled for a maximum of three times as the main problem is a lack of awareness and decomposing. turkic current the recycles thirty percent of

its plastic waste within the next twelve years the government says it is aiming for one hundred percent c. now because solo al-jazeera a stumble our website website pardon me is al jazeera dot com you can check in there for updates on all the day's news including a fifteen day government shutdown in the u.s. that's all for the news hour to keep it here i'll have much more on the other side of the break.

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it could be the biggest land grab in history. as powerful nations make rain for territories under the oceans twenty one geologists are secret borders. as the struggle for resources intensifies some of the world's most powerful scientists speak out. ocean. on a zero. another day another round of talks to resolve the partial government shutdown in the u.s. and still no breakthrough.

i'm richelle carey this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up at play from members of the religious minority in syria who fear for their safety if the u.s. withdraws its troops. violence and u.s. troops on standby the disputed presidential election democratic republic of congo suffers another setback in ukraine's newly formed orthodox church is granted and dependent on a split from the russian church provoking anger in moscow. the united states government shutdown is dragging on for its fifteenth day with another round of negotiations failing to break the deadlock senior trungpa ministration officials met democratic congressional members but they still haven't found a way to reopen the government as president mike pence says the meeting was productive in the two sides will meet again on sunday as remaining defiant refusing

to sign a bill to restore government until it gets over five billion dollars the bill has mexico border wall and estabrook has the latest from washington d.c. . vice president mike pence jared cushion or the president's son in law and close advisor and curious to nielsen who is the secretary of homeland security met for about two hours on saturday afternoon with congressional aides talking about this government shutdown the vice president said that these talks on saturday were productive however president trump tweeted that the two sides really didn't make much headway now the vice president is going to be continuing these talks tomorrow while president trump is going to be meeting with some of his senior aides at camp david presidential retreat treat meanwhile this afternoon house speaker nancy pelosi announced that house democrats are going to be meeting next week to pass individual appropriations bills that would reopen some agencies including the

department of treasury and the i.r.s. so the government could begin processing income tax returns and get income tax refunds back in the hands of americans now this shutdown is going into its fifteenth day if it goes another week that would be three weeks and it would make it the longest shutdown in u.s. history local analyst eric ham says the partial shutdown is going to have a devastating effect on people and workers trying to live their everyday lives. if this shutdown goes another week this will be the first time within the shutdown that federal workers are not receiving paychecks and so think about that you have now that the holidays are over college students are going back to school and you have parents who are not working and so the question becomes do they pay mortgages or do they pay college tuition do they pay for groceries or do they pay utilities

and so these are some of the bread and butter issues that people are faced with now as this shutdown continues to lome and they hear the president say that this shutdown he could take the shutdown for a year or four years that i'm sure has many workers hitting the panic button on how they were actually survive going forward because when you look at those eight hundred thousand employees many of those eight hundred thousand employees are not within washington d.c. they're scattered throughout the country and so think about small businesses think about food trucks that may set up around government offices or building and though those are small businesses and now that those workers aren't coming into the office that's putting a crimp on small businesses opportunities to earn as well so we're not just talking about a hundred thousand employees going without paychecks we're talking about the residual small businesses and other entities that will not be getting paid as

a result of these federal workers not working and so i mean it's a ripple effect and i just don't think either the president or even congress really understands what's at stake and i think we're going to really see the pressure ramp up next week when we see government workers start losing paychecks. yes national security advisor john bolton has warned the syria's government warned syria's government rather that they withdraw all of american troops is not a green light to use chemical weapons is arrived in israel and will meet prime minister benjamin netanyahu on sunday before traveling to turkey ankara as promised to take the lead in the fight against isis all in syria it reportedly wants american military support to continue even after the u.s. pullout or fear shunts decision will clear the path for a turkish assault against kurdish forces who fought alongside u.s. troops against eisel amato as well from gazi on tap on the turkey syria border. talkies priority least is that is a moment of kurdish y.p.

the fighters who have full to alongside u.s. troops in the fight against u.s. officials have told them many times before the most effective force against but to talk to them nothing more than a terrorist organization an extension of the kurdish workers but the p.k. k. and wants them just a move on the disc and with taken out of total city and they were near turkey's border with syria actually turkey doesn't want to be quite the deep controlling and impossible syria and has been immobile fruity and with something weak saying they will talk all the tom the city of mumbai each with a view of removing the white preview from the attack you'll feel once just to call on else support from the united states u.s. troop withdrawal process is complete but u.s. officials often pull him from a clear timetable civil times. would now expect don't bolt on when he visits. on

tuesday to come up with a timetable for troop withdrawal as he community has also called on the u.s. not to withdraw troops from syria the phrase any foundation has warned that if american forces leave before i saw is defeated the armed groups will make a comeback and estimated three thousand using these were killed when i saw fighters swept across northern iraq and syria and two thousand and fourteen israeli government officials have expressed alarm that they pullout of u.s. troops will embolden iran to expand its influence in syria as a professor and international relations at regent university in london he says washington strategy in the middle east is confused. the message use is completely incoherent on the one hand the united states and top and installation talk about small push only on the visa v the nuclear issue while the main concern for weezer the real concern is and is actually having to close to the boulder whether in syria

the pork saved by the freeze by law and even directs no supply off weapon in ammunition or huge scale to the burner so what is the message more push only on less pollution or is it on is a major threat to stability in the milk and interests of the region or we always know and this what if if there is waiting in this other allies in the region to a coherent message just started to form from washington on the day they don't find it and weave the expectations that iran actually win when president arms say it doesn't mind if iran will do whatever it wants in syria that's obviously the kind of message that stays of the government is afraid of. then comes the contradictory message that came. to washington when mine diffuser would operate but if really in syria but then it will lead for pleasure if russia gets on the happy about it

especially since the downing of the planes in september so actually what it in violence is further clashing in its creates the the regional disoblige in this sense way less stable and gyptian plays officer has died while trying to defuse a bomb near a church in cairo it's kurdish forces were called to the eastern suburbs of nasr city when this suspicious package was found on a rooftop to other place officers at an onlooker were injured in that blast it comes less than two days before egypt's christian minority celebrates the coptic christmas egyptian christians had been targeted in a string of attacks in recent years i have armies associate professor of political science at long island university says the country center and grace and attacks around the holiday season. unfortunately seen a pattern of targeting trichoniscus before christmas just as happened last year with the last a terror attack being the killing during each child's baptism back in november. we don't know who is taking claim for this and we also know that there was an

attack on a tourist bus just last week exactly a week ago from tonight and source tony see an uptick and targeting of civilians when we look at the pattern of terrorist behavior they start with attacking the state or symbols of the state the security apparatus of the police and in egypt that's what inside beat them up as the terrorist organization that folded into ice all started doing back in two thousand and thirteen they then ask to attacking those seeming to be in cahoots or sympathetic to the state and that's when we saw the attack on the sushi shrines last just around this time last year because those were supposedly families that were wild state they then escalated that to now attacking civilians and one terrorist groups begin to attack civilians and mass what it's meant to do is to actually chill society so that they act for political change now we don't know if i'm sorry too much has done this because no one has

claimed credit but what we do know is that during the holiday suits and during the peak time of egypt's tourist time period we're seeing an uptick in terrorist attacks and that is no way to but i just chill society but have to stay economic operads still ahead on al-jazeera. not. run from standing up to a so-called slave law millions of hungry call for a national strike against the government's controversial labor reform. let's find out what organizers are so keen for competitors to stay on course at the show stopper rally. from dusky sunsets over the sprawling savannah. to summarize atop an asian metropolis. hello again welcome back to your international weather forecast where here across china we're going to be seeing increasing clouds and

rain from our tropical storm that's here in the bed and go now that storm is going to be pushing all that rain and moisture up here towards the northeast over the next couple days not looking too bad here on sunday you can see the clouds extending up here towards central china down here we're going to be seeing rain across parts of vietnam but as we go towards monday it's going to be on the increase we're going to see more heavy rain up towards the north and out here towards east for joe a rainy day for you at seventy shanghai may see the rain later in the day with attempt there of about nine degrees there but over here towards hong kong it's going to be mostly cloudy with a temperature of twenty two well public is making its way towards the west as i mentioned and we're still going to seeing some residual moisture in thailand myanmar but it's going to be the nicobar in amman islands that we are going to be watching in terms of flooding next where we could be seeing some very heavy rain across much of that area down here towards the south we'll call him poor is looking quite nice at thirty four degrees and staying at thirty four but we do expect that the moisture is going to be on the increase as we go towards monday and here across parts of india.